Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Contemporary art museum in Old Town Scottsdale, United States.

The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) is a museum of contemporary art, design, and architecture in the Old Town district of downtown Scottsdale, Arizona. It occupies a minimalist building that Phoenix architect Will Bruder completely retrofitted from a former movie theater. The museum has five galleries for rotating exhibitions and its permanent collection, and the building also holds Knight Rise, a skyspace by Arizona artist James Turrell.

The building started its life as a cinema before being transformed in 1999 into an art venue by architect Will Bruder, who worked with the existing structure rather than replacing it. The conversion helped shift the character of that part of Scottsdale toward arts and culture.

The museum is run for the city by Scottsdale Arts, a non-profit corporation, and its name is shortened to SMoCA in local use. Its galleries host rotating shows alongside works from a growing permanent collection, and it has shown artists such as Lydia Okumura, James Marshall, Paolo Soleri, Squidsoup, Mel Roman and Olafur Eliasson.

SMoCA occupies a retrofitted former movie theater in Old Town Scottsdale, run for the city by the non-profit Scottsdale Arts. Knight Rise, the James Turrell skyspace, is permanently on view, so it can be seen alongside the rotating exhibitions in the five galleries. The building is a minimalist retrofit by Phoenix architect Will Bruder.

A permanent work by James Turrell called Knight Rise frames the Arizona sky through an oval opening cut into the roof, so the artwork is never the same twice. The changing light and cloud conditions mean that two people visiting on different days will see something entirely different.